Did you actually visit the site? Apparently it was created by a "concerned mother" who thinks her son (?) may have been falsely accused in the Air Force Academy scandals from a few years back.
I know that some people want to believe the absolute best of their kids/other people/whatever and this leads to them becoming propagandists without really knowing all the facts, but I'm sure that people who are falsely accused of rape are out there--as are women who do it knowing that the simple accusation of rape can almost permanently ruin a guy's life. So it's not that unheard of that someone would want to make a site about the subject...although it's pretty sad, considering so few (actual) rapes actually get reported in the first place.
Yes I did. Haven't read much though. Still horrified.
There are people falsely accused of rape. Black men and white women have a particularly complicated history of that, at least in the U.S. However, the idea that women just go out and falsely accuse men of rape is disingenuous at best. The truth of the matter is women (and also men) have every reason to believe they won't get justice and they'll only put themselves through more emotional trauma if they try. Our culture allows women to be slut shamed on the bench while boys get a defense of boys will be boys and get off.
In short? Unless you want to talk about the race problem, false rape charges is not a systemic problem used to bring men down.
I think that while race can and probably often is a part of it, it's not the whole story in and of itself. To not address the race issue on purpose doesn't do the problem justice, but to not address it because it's not relevant to the particular circumstances highlighted isn't, by itself, wrong IMO.
I see it as more of a gender issue (gender roles, gender stereotyping, etc.) than a race issue, but I can see how it plays a role.
I was thinking on a institutional/systematic way. The only case I can think of off the top of my head where men are at a disadvantage here is black men and white women (and their white men). Otherwise.... there isn't a system that sets out to hurt men.
Since when is false rape accusations "common"? I mean, besides in soap operas? I remember reading a column years ago that pointed at the cultural acceptance of false rape accusations being one of the major problems in rape trials by leading to the usual victim blaming.
Sweden, you know, the country priding itself on women's rights? Massive problem with victim blaming which you don't even need to look all that into to find, you just need to read the fucking newspaper. There was a case recently where a girl was orally raped and accused of having falsely accused the boy who did it (and confessed to it) because she had been riding a horse the next day. Because when you're raped, you wouldn't go out horseback riding, not even when the rape was oral!! There was campaign by his classmates and family to clear him of a crime that he had confessed to. I don't even...
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I know that some people want to believe the absolute best of their kids/other people/whatever and this leads to them becoming propagandists without really knowing all the facts, but I'm sure that people who are falsely accused of rape are out there--as are women who do it knowing that the simple accusation of rape can almost permanently ruin a guy's life. So it's not that unheard of that someone would want to make a site about the subject...although it's pretty sad, considering so few (actual) rapes actually get reported in the first place.
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There are people falsely accused of rape. Black men and white women have a particularly complicated history of that, at least in the U.S. However, the idea that women just go out and falsely accuse men of rape is disingenuous at best. The truth of the matter is women (and also men) have every reason to believe they won't get justice and they'll only put themselves through more emotional trauma if they try. Our culture allows women to be slut shamed on the bench while boys get a defense of boys will be boys and get off.
In short? Unless you want to talk about the race problem, false rape charges is not a systemic problem used to bring men down.
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I see it as more of a gender issue (gender roles, gender stereotyping, etc.) than a race issue, but I can see how it plays a role.
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Sweden, you know, the country priding itself on women's rights? Massive problem with victim blaming which you don't even need to look all that into to find, you just need to read the fucking newspaper. There was a case recently where a girl was orally raped and accused of having falsely accused the boy who did it (and confessed to it) because she had been riding a horse the next day. Because when you're raped, you wouldn't go out horseback riding, not even when the rape was oral!! There was campaign by his classmates and family to clear him of a crime that he had confessed to. I don't even...
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There are rare cases where this occurs. This does not mean that rape victims should be automatically be assumed to be liars.
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